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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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20 May 2026
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Gurathin and Murderbot might still not be close, but that doesn't mean Gurathin won't help fix some malfunctioning code in its memory systems. He would have preferred to know what kind of memory it was beforehand, though.
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08 May 2026
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06 May 2026
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03 May 2026
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The last option involves closing down as many programs as I can get away with without shutting down, including the really important ones. It sounds terrifying, and it is. (Was.) (...Actually, who am I kidding, it’s still terrifying)
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12 Apr 2026
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You were so beautiful.
And I was the only one who could see it. I was the only one you would allow to see it.
You really should have known better than to let me touch you like this.
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Murderbot fucks (up) one of ART's drones and has an emotion or two about it.
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29 Mar 2026
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It was supposed to be a low risk trip, and Dr Mensah had convinced SecUnit that everything would be fine. Then it finds out that everything was most assuredly not fine.
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- Part 9 of Mensah and Murderbot March 2026
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24 Mar 2026
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Testing, Testing, Mic Check 123 by jeffgoldblum90s
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Mar 2026
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21 Mar 2026
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ART muses at the way Murderbot is constructed, its function, as well as what it means to ART.
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10 Mar 2026
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historical AU set in the 1890s philippines, specifically around what are now the san nicolas/binondo/intramuros districts of manila.
it is the final decade of the spanish empire's control over the philippines. a revolutionary fighter's life takes a messy turn after an unexpected encounter with a pirate from across the sea.
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19 Feb 2026
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"Dammit. I’m sorry to say this, Peri," Seth sighed. "But I’m afraid you might have to try the— seduction."
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SecUnit comes home sex-pollened and has to be, ah, tempted over to the MedBay for treatment.
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10 Feb 2026
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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07 Jan 2026
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A vote takes place on Preservation. Murderbot and ART consider their options.
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30 Dec 2025
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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28 Dec 2025
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Humans were screaming, I was sprinting toward the problem, and the sky was unleashing a chill, torrential rain that made me nostalgic for getting hosed off in the security ready room.
It should have been the perfect day.
Well, not for the screaming people trapped in the collapsed building. Their day probably sucked. For me, it was exactly what I needed.
More than anything, I really needed there to be a problem, because if there wasn’t then I was the problem.
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23 Dec 2025
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Murderbot goes Doc McStuffins on an old drone of ART's.
For the Murderhelion Week prompt: Attempt at Comfort
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21 Dec 2025
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I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.
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[in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]
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20 Dec 2025
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MSG: Then we will try again.
LOCAL: Right.
LOCAL: Because something new is totally going to happen this time.
LOCAL: It’s totally going to run this time.
LOCAL: That’s good science.MSG: Reboot the computer.
LOCAL: This is the last time.
MSG: Do not hit the monitor. It is a very complicated piece of equipment.
MSG: It ran.
MSG: I told you this would work.
MSG: You need to be gentle with it.Bookmarked by crawlingvoid
12 Dec 2025
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
27 Mar 2026
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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07 Dec 2025